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No Tankers Load at Kharg Island for a Week as U.S. Blockade Halts Iranian Crude

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Courtroom-sketch editorial illustration of an overhead aerial view of Kharg Island, an arid rocky oil-terminal island rendered in warm ochres and ringed by pale shallows and deep slate-blue Gulf water, showing clusters of circular crude storage tanks, an airstrip along the northern shore and long jetties reaching out into empty sea.

No tankers have loaded at Iran's main crude export terminal on Kharg Island for at least a week, shipping and satellite data show, indicating that the renewed United States naval blockade has brought Tehran's oil sales to a standstill. Loading operations stopped on July 31, according to the intelligence providers Kpler and Energy Aspects, and the maritime intelligence firm Windward said all three of the island's berths sat empty for an extended period. About nine of every ten barrels Iran exports are loaded at Kharg. Washington reimposed the blockade in mid-July after an interim deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz collapsed.

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